"Iron dog" crossing? This old "dog" still looks good after many years in service while sporting CSX's YN3 paint scheme, which I believe is the first time it's been seen on RP. The "cyclops" cros... (more)

6252 and 8869 grind hard as the pushers on this 130-car coal train as it crawls slowly up East Saugatuck Hill on a colorful fall afternoon. Vantage point courtesy of a 50 ft tall tree. :-)

A short hike and a little rock climbing provided a nice vantage point for the California Zephyr heading east through the foothills on Track 2.

The morning sun glints off the side of 2680 as it leads fellow geep 2639 back to the yard on this crisp winter morning. The two were running light after finishing up some switching jobs at local ... (more)

620 tons of orange slice through a wintry scene along the Lake Michigan shoreline. The trio of BNSF locomotives is pulling 130 loaded coal hoppers to the J.H. Campbell Generating Complex in West ... (more)

8835 leads 130 empty coal hoppers out of the J.H. Campbell Generating Complex on a snowy day in west Michigan.

GMTX 2635 pushes Marquette Rail's Russell snowplow through a beautiful winter scene in northern Michigan. The sign on the tree was obeyed. :-)

GMTX 2635 looks right at home in this winter wonderland as it takes a break before pushing the Russell plow onward toward Baldwin, MI.

Fellow RP contributor Aaron Schlegel stands atop our chase vehicle to get a higher perspective of Marquette Rail's first plow run of the year.

A classic Midwestern rural scene is portrayed here as BNSF 4705 leads a stack train eastward toward Chicago.

A warm spring morning sees this classic Santa Fe warbonnet leading an intermodal train along a muddy Mississippi River.

Y121 winds its way through downtown Holland with a delivery of 14 empty gons to Padnos Iron & Metal.

2539 leads a local job for its weekly delivery to the Hamilton Farm Bureau, and is kept to a crawl over the old trestle which has spanned the Rabbit River for over 130 years. It's well into Novem... (more)

Much of the day was cloudy for the SRI's Fall Color excursion, but just before sunset the sky opened up, illuminating 765 and her train as they rolled through the mid-Michigan countryside. Meanwh... (more)

E949 rolls around the big curve in Sawyer on its journey out of Michigan and back to the Wyoming coal fields.